Dr Judith Bateup
| Position | Senior Teaching Fellow |
|---|---|
| Department | Department of Microbiology and Immunology |
| Qualifications | BSc(Hons) PhD(Otago) |
| Research summary | Microbiology of the gastrointestinal tract |
Research
Dr Bateup's research (in collaboration with Professor Gerald Tannock) has focused on lactobacilli, which are members of the normal microflora of several animal species.
One study involved the production of the enzyme bile salt hydrolase (which deconjugates conjugated bile salts in the intestinal tract resulting in deconjugated bile acids) and the enzyme's effect on bacterial growth. In another project, molecular techniques such as ribotyping were used to investigate the lactobacilli present in the gastrointestinal tract of swine.
Publications
Heng, N. C. K., Bateup, J. M., Loach, D. M., Wu, X., Jenkinson, H. F., Morrison, M., & Tannock, G. W. (1999). Influence of different functional elements of plasmid pGT232 on maintenance of recombinant plasmids in Lactobacillus reuteri populations in vitro and in vivo. Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 65, 5378-5385.
Bateup, J., Dobbinson, S., McConnell, M. A., Munro, K., & Tannock, G. W. (1998). Molecular analysis of the composition of Lactobacillus populations inhabiting the stomach and caecum of pigs. Microbial Ecology in Health & Disease, 10, 95-102.
Tannock, G. W., Bateup, J. M., & Jenkinson, H. F. (1997). Effect of sodium taurocholate on the in vitro growth of lactobacilli. Microbial Ecology, 33(2), 163-167.
Bateup, J. M., McConnell, M. A., Jenkinson, H. F., & Tannock, G. W. (1995). Comparison of Lactobacillus strains with respect to bile salt hydrolase activity, colonization of the gastrointestinal tract, and growth rate of the murine host. Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 61(3), 1147-1149.
